In mid-July, north of Helan Mountain, a cavalry of hundreds of people was quickly heading north on the narrow green space between the Ulanbuhe Desert and the river in later generations...

All two hundred cavalrymen were armoured, each wearing leather hats, red tassels tied under the chin, and a bow bag behind them, and a bow or crossbow hanging on the saddle. They were typical of Qin cavalry outfits.

Although this area is near the desert, as long as they walk next to the river, they will not lose their way and have enough fresh water to quench their thirst. However, the day is too hot and many soldiers are peeling off their skin, but they can only continue to travel northwards under the sun. When drinking horses and resting, complaints are naturally indispensable.

"Beidi County has just responded to the Marquis of Wuzhong. Some counties are still fighting stubbornly and are attacked by the Yuezhi barbarians. They either let us stay in the local area or go south to Guanzhong. Why bother to seek distance and travel far north?"

Guan Ying, the rider who was responsible for these two hundred people, was bound to scold them:

"Didn't Mr. Zhang say that? His lips were dead and his teeth were cold! Now the ones that were plaguing Helan Mountain in the north were just a few Yuezhi remnants who followed the orders of the Xiongnu. However, if Shuofang County in the north was trapped by the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu cavalry could drive south!"

Zhang Han was about half a month ago, after hearing the news that Heifu entered Wu Pass, and raised troops in Fuping. With the funds provided by the Wu family, he bribed the Rong troops stationed in Helan Mountain to serve, and Gongsun Bailang also responded in Yiqu City.

The northern land was originally a place where the black-faced county magistrate was run by the black-faced county magistrate. It was only after ten months that Zhang Cang was able to go to Xianyang by the waterway.

But Beidi County also encountered some trouble. It turned out that as the Huns destroyed the Donghu several months ago, all the tribes in the northern grasslands respected the Huns.

A Xihou, a remnant of the Yuezhi family who was destroyed by Li Xin, was also named "The Right King" by Maodun. He was trapped in Yansai because of thousands of Yuezhi cavalry. He heard that the civil strife in the north were invaded by Helan Mountain Que. However, he was defeated by Zhang Han and also discovered the important news that Yuezhi and the Xiongnu cavalry began to use saddles and horse stirrups...

Zhang Han quickly adjusted his deployment and divided the "rebel army" in the north into two parts. One part cleaned up the counties and towns that resisted the surrender, and the other part resisted the barbarians on Helan Mountain. He also asked Guan Ying to lead two hundred people to investigate north to find out whether Shuofang had all fallen.

At present, after being scolded by Guan Ying, the cavalryman from a good family from the northern part did not dare to complain. He only lowered his voice and cursed after Guan Ying left:

"I think it's this new Qin man who wants to go to New Qinzhong to save his old friends!"

As early as Shang Yang, the Qin people had two different origins: the people in the old place in Guanzhong were the old people, and the newly captured counties in Guandong were the new Qin people.

The kings of Qin's past dynasties often took advantage of the advantages of the people of the former Qin and the people of the new Qin and the people of the new Qin and let the people of the "Ancient Qin" divide the labor reasonably, so that the Qin State will become stronger without delaying the war of hegemony or farming production.

In short, one is responsible for serving and fighting to cut off people's heads, and the other is specializing in farming.

The boundaries of different division of labor gradually began to blur. For example, Guan Ying was originally a cloth vendor in Suiyang, but was summoned to the frontier. At first, she was a civilian. However, because she was quick and good at erecting cloth shoes in the large-scale production movement, she was commended by Heifu and asked him what reward he wanted? Guan Ying said she wanted to be a military officer and showed her own self-taught riding and shooting skills...

It was then that he transferred his military position, and now he was highly valued by Zhang Han because he protected the eldest son of Wu Zhong when Hu Hai and Zhao Gao were acting against each other.

However, the new Qin people remained the same, so Qin remained unchanged. However, as Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, more and more Qin people were new.

Qin expelled the Huns to capture Henan territory and set up Shuofang County. He drew garrison soldiers from Guandong to build the Great Wall and moved the people to make it happen. The 30,000 households, nearly 200,000 people were New Qin people, and more than 40 cities were established in total. Because this county was almost a county composed of New Qin people, it was also called New Qin and New Qin...

Therefore, the Qin people looked down on the New Qin people and often humiliated and bullied a lot. Therefore, the cavalryman refused to submit to Guan Ying and even secretly called him "a child selling a cart".

However, Guan Ying heard this, but she turned her head and smiled slightly:

"Don't forget, Marquis Wu Zhong is also a member of the New Qin! What's more, I am a cavalry general who holds the talisman of Lord Zhang. You are all honest and obedient to the order!"

...

The next day, Guan Ying and the others walked out of the desert. The yellow sand turned into sparse grassland, and the grass became taller and higher. As the horse's hooves stepped into the mud, a plain with water networks suddenly appeared in front of everyone. The greenery and forests were full of unimaginable. This was actually the northern subway?

Guan Ying knew that this was the most plump and wealthy grassland in the north: Hetao.

The river slowed down here, leaving behind a large amount of yellow-brown mud, extremely plump. In the past, the water and grass were abundant and were the favorite pastures of the Huns. Eight years ago, after the three generals of Hei, Li and Meng rushed to the Huns, the place was empty.

With the advice of Hefu and others, Qin Shihuang waved his hand and classified three parts of Hetao, Beijue and Henan into a new county:

"Shuofang!"

A large number of people who were punished by the mainland were moved here. Under the stimulation of Meng Tian, ​​the Great Wall was built and the entire Shuofang County was protected. At first, their food was transported by the people of the mainland. They came from Guanzhong through straight roads, just ten to two or three, and they were experiencing a lot of labor. The whole world was exhausted by this. Later, they moved the people to farm and moved 30,000 households from Guandong to live there.

In order to resettle these 30,000 households and 150,000 garrison soldiers along the Great Wall, Qin Shihuang set up forty-four counties in Helan, Huamachi, Yunzhong, Shuofang and other places in one breath, and Shuofang occupied thirty.

In this way, dozens of small towns were scattered in the New Qin Dynasty like a string of pearls. They were bridgeheads and outposts for the farming people on the grasslands, and the Great Wall was a fence for enclosing land.

Each city has a city wall that can accommodate more than a thousand residents. It is surrounded by newly developed farmland and the outer edge is a pasture protected by the Great Wall beacon towers. The New Qin people who migrated here can be self-sufficient through semi-agriculture and semi-pastoralism, and even support the garrison soldiers guarding the Great Wall. The garrison soldiers also watched everything outside the border to ensure the safety of immigration.

But now, the balance has been broken, and the Great Wall that stretches for thousands of miles is empty!

This is what Guan Ying and his friends saw after entering the New Qinzhong. The beacon towers along the Great Wall were empty and the civil war was fierce. The Great Wall Corps drew south twice, and more than 100,000 people were almost gone.

The price was that the Huns who used to dare not go south to herd their horses began to pluck up their courage to get closer. When crossbow arrows were no longer shot on the Great Wall, or even burning beacons no longer burned, the Hu people became more and more bold, trying every means to break through, or bypass the not-tall Great Wall and return to the Hetao Plain...

That was just the beginning. When Maodun had destroyed the Donghu and had all the grasslands in the northern border, the Huns had no worries and began to invade the Yunzhong and Shuofang without any restraint!

Guan Ying frowned in the Tangkou Castle full of corpses and turtles.

This is the city that is the south of Xinqinzhong. The "steel" and the stone steps. The river trough on the bank is like step by step. Hence the name is the Fushu Ferry of Xinqinzhong. Grain ships from the north dock here and then sail eastward.

But I didn't expect that this was the situation. The ferry was destroyed and it was a mess. Looking at the situation in the city, there were only two or three hundred people dead. The rest of the people either ran away by boat like the more than a hundred people they met when they came, or they were...

"Captained by the barbarians!"

The Qin cavalry officials who had a gap with Guan Ying gritted their teeth. They all knew that once a woman's children were captured by the Huns, they would end up in extremely miserable ways. They were basically slaves and humiliated. The Huns called him "sheep concubines". They had no qualifications to ride horses and carriages, so they could only follow the Huns barefoot and migrate everywhere, and the court was in danger.

"The Huns killed in heaven. When the Great Wall guards were there, the Huns were timid and did not dare to go south to herd their horses, but today they are so rampant! If General Li is here and Marquis Wu Zhong is here, how could this be done!"

The cavalryman said pessimisticly again: "The Tangkou Fort is already the southernmost city in the New Qin Dynasty. It has fallen here, not to mention the twenty or thirty buildings in the north? I guess it was also plundered by the Huns and the cavalry generals. We go deep into the land of the barbarians. We should be careful to discover and pursue their brigade, and we should retreat early to report this to Mr. Zhang..."

"Look at that."

Guan Ying pointed to more than ten miles north, deep in the green grassland, a bouquet of wolf smoke rose up straight, so eye-catching in the sky.

"There is wolf smoke, which means that there are still people who are sticking to it and asking for help!"

He activated his war horse and began to move forward there.

"Not all the cities in the New Qin Dynasty have fallen into Hu Chen!"

...

Although he planned to go to Linrong Castle to find out, considering that the Hu people like to use hunting skills in wars, it is especially good for luring the enemy. Guan Ying asked two hundred northern cavalry to hide from a hillside, and only took a few scouts to investigate the situation in Linrong Castle.

Guan Ying and others tied the horse to the wind and sneaked into the woods one mile away from the city wall to check secretly.

But there were more than a hundred Huns who set up camp outside Linrong Fortress and drove some people to show off their power in front of the fortress gate.

Or they dragged the captured old and weak on the horse, galloping on the horse, dragging them to stagger and whipping them all over. The Hu knights made fun of the people in the city loudly. When they were tired of playing, they drew their bows and arrows to kill the weak.

"This is a random killing and humiliation to anger the people in the city and lure them out of the city to fight with them..."

Guan Ying took a breath. This plan was really cruel. Among these old and weak, there were probably many relatives from the castle who had not entered the city.

If they do not save them, the morale in the city will decline greatly and the hearts of the people will be dispersed. If they go out to save them, they will be in the minds of the Huns.

It is well known that the Huns were not good at siegeing cities, but when it comes to field battles, many of the Huns now follow the Qin people, equipped with saddles, stirrups, and riding and shooting better than before. A group of immigrants who only received rough training may not be able to compete with them.

Guan Ying looked at the woods several miles away opposite him. There were birds not flying down there, and there were probably some Huns ambushing them. I don’t know how many of them were there?

While Guan Ying was thinking about a solution to the situation under the fortress suddenly changed.
Chapter completed!